BBC accused of 'manipulating' emails in pay TV hacking row (NewsCorp)
Source: the guardian
The BBC has defended itself against accusations that it "grossly misrepresented" Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation during a Panorama investigation into alleged computer hacking.
In increasingly heated exchanges, the BBC said it had revealed the "biggest Murdoch hacking scandal of all" during the programme, which claimed a News Corp subsidiary employed computer hackers to undermine the business of Sky's chief TV rival in Britain, ONdigital.
News Corp's chief operating officer, Chase Carey, said the BBC had used "manipulated and mischaracterised emails" in order to support its claim. Programme insiders said that News Corp critics of the show appeared to have misunderstood what appeared on the screens of 1.8 million viewers.
The BBC said: "We stand by the Panorama investigation," which went out after being approved by the director of news, Helen Boaden. The director general, Mark Thompson, was briefed on the contents of the programme, but is not thought to have seen it before transmission in case he would need to rule on a complaint made against it.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2012/mar/29/bbc-accused-manipulating-email-pay-tv
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